3:01 Pick Me Up: Meat Loaf

Let’s face it: 3 p.m. is the cruellest time of the workday. The morning latte has worn off, and the post-lunch crash has you staggering around like an extra from a George A. Romero flick. That’s why, each weekday at 3:01 p.m., we present you with a video hand-picked to kick-start your heart. If the following clip doesn’t bring you temporarily back to life and help get you through the rest of the afternoon, chances are you’re dead inside.

Today’s offering: God bless Meat Loaf. With the possible exception of Ron Jeremy, no man on the face of the earth has done a better job of giving the unfortunate-looking, hairy, and overweight among us hope. The ultimate message here? That’s easy: if this dude can get to the home plate in a parked car, anyone can. Well probably not Michael Moore, but that’s more because he’s obnoxious than, um, “plus-sized”.

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Feb 23, 2012 at 7:00pm

God I hated this song 35 years ago and I hate it even more today
ranks right up there with Don Mclean's, American Pie and Van Morrison's, Brown Eyed Girl (overplayed and over rated, YAWN) and it's 4:36 minutes longer than my 4:00 minute golden rule, eh "R2 be lost" or "R2 forest in the clouds" or whatever moniker that knob(s) goes by today

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A. MacInnis

Feb 24, 2012 at 12:34am

Dare I publicly confess that Meat Loaf is one of my great guilty pleasures and that I buckled down and bought Bat Out of Hell this year when I found it at a thrift store? (Songwriter) Jim Steinman is the master of campy, kitschy, showtunes-worthy pop craftsmanship - he bitchslaps Bruce Springsteen right out of the feckin' park, and pretty much anything he's done (including the Bonnie Tyler and Air Supply songs, to say nothing of his work with Sisters of Mercy [!]) occupies a small, much denied, and indubitably defective corner of my heart. Which I should be guarding more avidly. "Nothin' ever grows in this rotten old hole/ and everything is stunted and lost..." Maybe you gotta be 13 and suburban when you first encounter it, but...

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